The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1887-09-30
MENTIONED 'ulTtz PAPERS.
What Is sand OF People Whom the Pres
Sees Fit to Notice.

What Is sand OF People Whom the Press
.a Sees Fit to Notice.
Miss Mary G.. Burdette sister of the
humorist Bob" Burdette, is winning
marked success as a religious lecturer.
Princess Beatrice has given herself to
tho now fashionable study of photog.
raphy. and is turning out creditable
portraits.
katkof was Of plebeian origin and had
hard fight to win his position in the
face Of the proud aristocracy of Russia.
His father was panamar OF sacristan Of
the Moscow cathedral, and the future
power behind the throne" was con.
temptuously called "Panamarvitch" by
his fellow students at the university.
Bret Harte. of London, has grown
gray. but looks younger than he did
when here ter years ago. His color is
quite English. 1t is the fresh color of u
man who lives careful, regular life.
He does not look unlike Lord Wolscley,
aljutant general of the British army.
Mr.. Harte is living very quietly and goes
out but little, being engaged on new
book for which he is outstanding all his
resources.
Alphonse Daudet is no longer in good
health From strong, athletic man.
lover of out door recreation and sport, he
has gradually become morOse, anxious,
Respondent, slave to strained nerves.
He used to get up at in the morning
and do his best work in the cold. Now
he writes when he can. He reads no
books, opens no letters, and husbands his
failing strength with the most tender
care.
Felix Regamy, Partisan artist, we'll
known in Boston, has made the interest
ing discovery that a French plaster
molder named HUBBARD has in his possess
sion full sized bronze copy of the marble
statue of Washington by Houdon, which
he will sell for $500. NJ. Regamy sug-
gests in The Paris Figaro that the United
States government purchase the bronze
statue and present it to the gallery of the
Louvre.
Gen. Longstreet is living quietly at
Gainesville, Ga, writing book on the
war. AS he finishes chapter he sends
the manuscript to Washington 70 have all
dates and figures verified from the official
records. The general says: 81 expect
both sides to pitch into me, and | am TAX
ing time to be certain of all my state
Gen. Longstreet's publishers do
not care to have him say very much con-
corning the book, but it is understood
that the volume will create much discus.
sion and will be especially interesting to
those who understand the technical de-
tails of the science of war.
Lawson N. Fuller, who, with Russell
Sage, will try to break the 2:37 record for
four-in-hands on Fleetwood track this
fall, says he hasn't missed mea! in
years, and attributes his
healthy appetite to continuous driving.
Il am never tired of driving" he says,
and driving is the best and most gentle
exercise after eating. Horseback riding
is altogether too violent. l have driven
800, 900 miles on this Manhattan Island
alone. When l was weeks old my
mother rode on horseback with me in her
lap, and when was years old l gal
loped alone on horseback from st. Adams
to my home in Bakersfield, fifteen miles
away. But stick to driving if you want
an appetite and good digestion.
Mile. Drounin, who was arrested in
England as dangerous person, is
school teacher, who inherits from her
father talent for modelling, and who
was innocently preparing to ramble
through England with the modelling clay
which was mistaken for dynamite. Only
! short time ago the luggage of New
England lady was seized at Liverpool,
and the owner put through a course of
sharp questions, because sor.ethinS that
he custom house officials took for dyna-
mite was found in one of her trunks.
Only when she broke piece off the lump
md ate it with evident relish could the
officials be persuaded that it was brick
If maple sugar that she was taking to her
friends in England.